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Name: Rony Location: Hong Kong My life is a musical and I love applause... if even just from the both of you. Current Posts
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
I almost had a moment today. I came into work thinking my schedule for the day was set. Then, chaos. But as I learned in an episode of Scrubs, to slow things down, you gotta take a step back and breathe in slow. And there it was, I had five minutes till my next rehearsal and it felt like much more. My brain put the rest of the day in order and by 7 pm, I was enjoying the Summer barbecue party with everybody else. *whew* The old me I think would've lost it. Or gotten cranky. But nowadays, I'm really learning the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't. My sanity, is something I can.I've uploaded the last clip I have from the Tick Tick Boom appearance on Martin After Dark. See how much exposure my fingers get. *smile* One of Bituin's finest moments in theater I believe. Singing this song. And how appropo.
Thank God it's Friday. A day away from a new month. Getting closer and closer to Halloween... rhapsody [
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Monday, August 27, 2007
That's me on a boat looking for pink dolphins. I'll get to that. With payday Friday, I decided that this past weekend was gonna my "selfish" weekend. Naturally, it began Friday night with me borrowing The Break Up, the Jennifer Aniston/Vince Vaughn movie. I figured, it was either a good idea or bad, but at least it was something to do. And it was good. Not a great movie but it still provided a bit of a catharsis. It helped me understand even more that some things need to happen. Like a real goodbye. With no anger and just enough sadness. It had a happy/unhappy ending, which was just. I also borrowed a movie called Touched about a father who wakes up after being in a coma for 2 years and finds the spirit to enjoy life again through the nurse who... it doesn't matter, it was too depressing, i didn't finish it. Saturday, I had plans. Booked myself a relaxing afternoon at the Mandarin Oriental Spa, which was perfection in a tea cup, just what I needed. Spent a little on myself at Zara, Calvin Klein Jeans, and HMV, then met up with Gerwin and Charlie for dinner. They hadn't heard the break up story yet, so we decided to do that over Crispy Pata in a classy Thai restaurant near Lan Kwai Fong which was also hosting a speed-dating event that night (go figure). We moved to Chocolux for dessert and while they headed back to Dbay, I went off to meet Tom for a drink at a bar called Community. We then moved to another bar, Volume, for a final night cap and it was good for me to see this particular gay scene. It was my first time to go there as a single man. A bit of a smile, with a tint of not just yet, I was outta there by 1215 am. There'd be other nights, it's only been two weeks, and I've got the pink dolphins the next day. I got home to a rather distressing email. What is up with my universe? In spite of crazy world, I still went on the pink dolphin tour. If I didn't, I'm sure I'd find myself moping at home which would be really useless. So there I was, meeting the tour group of around 30 people, in Kowloon hotel at 1230 pm. We then hopped on a bus and headed to the Tung Chung pier which was about half an hour away. The lady tour guide used this time to tell us about the pink dolphins, why they're pink, why they're endangered, and what the government is doing and not doing to save them. You can tell she was quite passionate about the cause. British woman. Then to make things even more amusing, she said "Okay, I will now repeat everything for our Japanese guests..." then proceeded in fluent Japanese. Amazing. We got to the pier, hopped on a nice yacht and headed out to sea. Unfortunately, miles of ocean, this was pretty much our view:  Awful visibility (what is up?) About half an hour out, the driver yelled "dolphin" and everyone went on deck to watch. And for 20 minutes, we watched this one dolphin jump out of the water every three minutes or so. You never knew where and it swam far from the boat, but you could clearly tell it was pink. Kinda cool. You might be wondering, why are the dolphins pink? The answer from the websit is: "The best theory we've heard is that they're actually white, but they look pink because they're blushing. All cetaceans are warm-blooded, meaning they regulate their own body temperatures. When they create excess heat from exercise, such as chasing fish, they flush blood to the outer layers of their skin, to get the heat from their body core out beyond the insulating layer of blubber, so that the heat can disperse to the water. This "blushing" makes them look pink." Interesting. After that, we sailed around even more. I had no idea where we were and everyone was getting sleepy. The cloudy view didn't help. So I ended up MOPING on the ship. iPod on, sitting, looking out to open water. Oh dear. But at least I was out. We were back at the pier by 430. It was a disappointing trip, even moreso when a colleague at work said when she went on it, there were like 15 dolphins splashing around the boat. Guess they weren't in the mood last Sunday. Oh well... I didn't get pictures but to have some idea, click here:  But all's good, I still enjoyed my "selfish" weekend. Back to work, more Halloween. Wonder what I'll do next weekend... rhapsody [
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
I love that research for my job often involves browsing through hundreds of youtube clips, watching live shows, and best of all, spending hours at HMV listening to music. Like this evening, after a drink with some friends from work, I headed over to HMV to research some music for an upcoming event. I also found myself buying two new Disney soundtracks: High School Musical 2 and Ratatouille. I'm listening HSM 2 now. It's fun, feel good, and formula. Like HSM 1, there's a song on the piano between the two leads, there's a "Sharpay version" of a song meant to be sung with sincerity not spotlights, and there's a sing-along finale. I'm hearing Nsync in many of the songs, I'd know, I was a huge fan. *silence* But overall, I'm liking the groove of this album better than the first, much more radio friendly, which is great that they took it a step up. Kids and young at heart alike are gonna eat this right up. Right from the hot opening number, forget Start of Something New... What Time Is It? Talk about hot...It just opened in the States (on the Disney channel) and I think its Asian premiere is Sept 9. I bet though I could watch the whole movie on youtube if I wanted to. Nah, I'll wait... I just found this. One last picture (thanks Jorja). It was taken while we were singing together one night on the piano. I've been living with a shadow overhead...  And that's that. Not looking for anger or tears where there is none. Maybe ten seasons later, I'll be boarding a plane for Paris. Or maybe not.
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
I've moved on a bit from Ally McBeal and am now reliving my Buffy the Vampire Slayer days. I found this depressing scene which I recall had me bawling buckets when I saw it one night, while I was in Bohol Tropics (don't recall why I was there... just that I was). Backgrounder: Angel and Buffy can't be together because Angel, who is a GOOD vampire, is cursed. If he ever finds true happiness, he turns into an evil, monster vampire. It sounds funny, but in the story, it's quite sad cause it means he and Buffy can never be together cause that would be true happiness. For ONE DAY, he becomes human, the curse is lifted and he and Buffy spend the most wonderful day together. Finally. Out in the sun. Truly happy. No fear. But some good things never last, the day must rewind and everything forgotten...
I felt your heartbeat. rhapsody [
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Friday, August 17, 2007
I was lucky that my vacation time coincided with the 20th year anniversary concert of the DLSU Chorale. Back in college, I was part of this group for about 2 years, after which I made a dramatic exit. *silence* However, my time as part of the group was incredibly memorable and educational. I was in charge of teaching the scores to the choir when Sir Boy wasn't around and learned a lot about choral arranging in the process. Meanwhile, I also made some unforgettable friends along the way. In particular, 3 of them... Francis, Maia, and DJ. The four of us became close because of Francis. Haha. In a nutshell, Francis came out to me, I was still closeted and couldn't handle the secret alone, so he then came out to Maia and DJ and pressure alleviated, we became a quartet of sorts (ironically, SATB). I would come out to Francis only years later, and in Fridays Alabang, to Maia and DJ. Full circle. Check us out then. Innocent (well...) young, idealistic, and well, thin. ...and of course, now. 2 of us mothers, one married, one a manager, and one a full time music director. And much more fabulous looking... and darker.  It was the first time in YEARS that all of us were at the same place. And then other alumni, from my batch were there too, I only told Francis I was coming so it was nice surprising them. We nostalgically refer to my batch as Harmonies of the Heart which was our first real concert together (right?) Also the first time we had a poster which wasn't so strict choir looking, wish I had a picture of it. Oh well. Back to the concert. The concert itself was okay. I was kind of hoping for a retrospective, looking back on the past 20 years, paying tribute to old songs which brought the group awards. Maybe an AVP. 20 years is a big deal so I expected bigger. I thought the sound was incredible, but the show could've been more than it was. But all's good, I still enjoyed myself listening to incredible music. Then after, some picture taking. The group now...  and how it would've looked back then... different batches in the picture though. Can you imagine me choirboy? I much prefer the piano nowadays...  Their encore almost brought tears to my eyes. Cause I'm cheezy like that, I thought I understood the song, but given the new situation of my life, I understand it much more now. I love it here, but Manila is still home...
Funny, when they sang the line "Saudi, Japan, o Hong Kong"... in our row, we had a Saudi, and a Hong Kong... we just needed a Japan. *sigh* Babalik at babalik ka rin. rhapsody [
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
My first real day back. Back to Oz. Back to work. The rain was pretty heavy today. But not as heavy as last week when, I heard, they closed the park at 230 pm and sent everyone home. At least the air was cooler. We still ran Mickey's Waterworks parade, but only once. Figured people didn't need to get more wet. My evening was spent with four very close friends. We pigged out on an Italian buffet, I drank a shot of something which got me whoozy, and ended the evening with a quick phone call and this entry. Thank God for friends like the ones I got. From tick, tick, boom...
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